Wednesday, 5 April 2017

40 vulnerabilities found in Samsung's Tizen OS

It turns out that Samsung's Tizen OS, the
system it uses on its smart TVs, smartwatches, smartphones and plans to use as
in-car infotainment, is highly vulnerable to hacking.

According to a report by researcher Amihai
Neiderman Tizen OS has no less than 40 major zero-day vulnerabilities that will
give hackers remote access to Tizen hardware.

One of the major weak points is the Tizen
store from which people download apps to their Tizen devices. It's easily
hackable and has the highest level of clearance on Tizen-powered hardware. Hack
the store and you can deliver malicious code to the entire OS.

A recent report by WikiLeaks unearthed that
Tizen Smart TVs could be hacked to monitor people. An ill-meaning person only
needed to have access to the TV to install a hack through its USB port.

Amihai Neiderman says he has contacted
Samsung about Tizen's vulnerabilities and gotten only automated responses in
return. Now that the information is making the rounds on the internet Samsung
has said it is committed to cooperate with Neiderman to resolve the issues in
its OS.